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Dysderidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Harpactea  Bristowe, 1939   221 species

Harpactea cecconii (Kulczyński, 1908)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:004623

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Description
Male

Prosoma 2.5 mm long. Legs: femur with numerous spines.

Body length male: 5.0 mm
Female

Prosoma 2.4 mm long. Sternum grainy. Eyes: anteriors less than 0.5 diameter apart. Legs: femur I with 3 or 4 spines, femur II with 2 or 3 spines. Opisthosoma greyish.

Body length female: 5.15 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: The record from Greece is doubtful (Bosmans et al., 2019c, Özkütük et al., 2023).
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Cyprus, Greece?
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Brignoli 1980b)

species

male Tip of bulbus
(Brignoli 1980b)

species

male Bulbus, prolateral view
(Özkütük et al. 2023)

species

male Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Özkütük et al. 2023)

species

male Bulbus, ventro-prolateral view
(Özkütük et al. 2023)

species

male Bulbus, ventro-retrolateral view
(Özkütük et al. 2023)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Özkütük et al. 2023)

species

female Vulva, ventral view
(Özkütük et al. 2023)

Distribution List
Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Greece   (Deltshev & Paraschi, 1990) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Brignoli P M (1980b) Some new or interesting eastern Mediterranean Dysderidae and Agelenidae (Araneae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 35: 75-82 pdf

Deltshev C D, Paraschi L (1990) A contribution to the study of spiders (Araneae: Dysderidae, Salticidae, Agelenidae) in Greece, with a description of a new species (Malthonica spinipalpis Deltshev, sp. n. Agelenidae). Biologia Gallo-Hellenica 17: 3-12 pdf

Özkütük R S, Özden Ö, Coşar İ, Kunt K B (2023) Redescription of Harpactea cecconii (Araneae: Dysderidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 65: 1-4 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
14-08-2023 Image insert
22-03-2023 Distribution update Detail
07-05-2013 Image insert